We are screwed.

[Thomas Cameron]

keith smith wrote:
> 
> Interesting!  You voted for someone with no record.  Who is reportedly 
> not even legally able to run for president.  Did you know there is a 
> lawsuit to determine this fact?

Are you seriously this stupid?  Do you honestly think that if he were 
not eligible it would take some quack out of Pennsylvania to uncover it? 
  Do you *really* think that neither the DNC nor the RNC would have 
vetted this?  Please!

> He had his records sealed?  Why?  I am also am at odds with Bush for the 
> same thing.  Bush hid his military service records because there was 
> something to hide.  So did McCain.

What records are you talking about?  The Univeristy of Chicago records 
on his nonprofit educational work?  Those records that he doesn't own or 
control?  Again, I call complete bullshit on this crap.

> I voted for McCain because I am afraid of Obama!  Who is Obama?  Were 
> did he come from?  

This is GOP misdirection and fearmongering and you should be ashamed of 
yourself for falling for it!  He was born in Hawaii.  His history is 
well documented.

 > What about that church were the pastor who preached
> hate not reconstruction.  

The church that he resigned from?  The statements that Obama disavowed? 
  Try again, sparky.

 > Obama suposedly has terrorist ties.

Show me anything other than that ridiculous stretch about Ayers (who has 
never actually been charged with a crime), which has been shown to be 
nothing other than them moving in the same circles, not "palling around" 
as Palin said.  Fearmongering and deception again.

In this vein, I guess McCain is a suspect because G. Gordon Liddy - a 
*convicted felon* - raised funds for him and invited McCain into his 
home!  Bah!

 >  He has an
> illegal alien aunt.  

And?  He didn't even know that she was illegal.  Apparently she is a 
relative which he didn't even meet until he was an adult, and he was 
unaware that she was illegal.  <yawn>

 > What else do we not know about?

Probably tons of stuff that, taken out of context like the rest of this 
Republican hate, could be misconstrued as scary.  Anything substantive? 
  Incredibly doubtful, especially after the Republican hate machine has 
had almost two years to assassinate his character and failed.

> What about his wife saying "....this is the first time I have been happy 
> with America..."  

Obviously an unfortunate quote, but again horribly over-sensationalized.

 > I've always been proud of this country that I have
> served on active duty, reserve duty, and within local government.  What 
> has he done?  Did he serve?  Has he sacrificed?

Um, he's done community advocacy work, taught Constitutional law (unlike 
Bush who has done much to erode Constitutional protections), practiced 
civil rights law, served in the Illinois senate, served in the US senate 
and is now the President-elect of the United States.  Yeah, he's served.

> What little we know about him scares me.

What you *should* know but instead choose to ignore scares me.

> I do not like what is going on in America.  I did not support the 
> bailout nor do I think it will work.  I just think McCain is much less 
> scary.

I disagree.  McCain is Bush's lapdog, and would have led more of the 
same pandering to and lining the pockets of the biggest bribers 
^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributors.  He'd have continued the assault on 
civil liberties.  He wants to continue to kill off American boys 
prosecuting a war we waged on a sovereign nation based on lies.  That 
scares me far worse than having a Constitutional scholar in office.

Thomas